Oral Answers to Questions — Government Departments. – in the House of Commons at on 5 December 1939.
Commander William King-Hall
, Ormskirk
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what has been the average number of copies of the OFFICIAL REPORT sold by His Majesty's Stationery Office each week since the outbreak of war?
Captain Harry Crookshank
, Gainsborough
The number of copies sold during the first eight weeks of the war has varied from 1,216 to 1,469 copies a week, the average being 1,328 copies. Particulars of sales for the period after the end of October are not vet available.
Commander William King-Hall
, Ormskirk
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether any public funds have been expended during the past 12 months in promoting the sale of the OFFICIAL REPORT, either in this country or abroad?
Captain Harry Crookshank
, Gainsborough
No, Sir, but the OFFICIAL REPORTS are mentioned in all the Stationery Office publishing lists and catalogues circulated at home and abroad.
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